I received one set of search warrants and affidavits this morning at 8:45am. There was one warrant and one affidavit for each apartment at the duplex. They were very spare -- boilerplate, really -- with no details about Officer Jones' due dilligence to confirm that Cory Maye was dealing drugs. I then got a second fax at 9:50am, which included a document called "Underlying Facts and Cirucmstances," in which Officer Jones lays out his reasons for requesting the warrants.
The story:
Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid.
Cory Maye is now on death row in Mississippi.
Here are the PDFs:
Warrant on Maye's residence.
Affidavit on Maye's residence.
Underlying facts on Maye's residence.
Post-raid evidence sheet on Maye's residence.
Warrant on Smith's residence.
Affidavit on Smith's residence.
Underlying facts on Smith's residence.
Post-raid evidence sheet on Smith's residence.